Elie Tahari Quotes

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.